As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
Reveille - 8 hours between oil changes??? Do you take oil out on your day's run??
I change my oil every two ride outs, which equate to around 250 miles
Mike
Just installed the drain back kit on my '12 TE310 yesterday. It will make oil changes less frustrating with the breather hose now re-routed to the oil fill plug. You need to pump oil into the filler plug now though, through a hose. Definitely an improvement over the stock setup.Speaking of oil changes on the 2012 TE310 - we have a TE310 and I have come to hate / worry about the breather hose connected to the drain plug.
Have you folks seen the new Zip-Ty part to reroute the breather tube from the nipple fitting on the oil drain plug to a fitting that goes into the oil fill opening above the oil filter? You replace the drain bolt with nipple with a normal bolt - no funky hose and radiator clamp to mess with.
I have one in the mail to put on our 310.
I have 600 miles on my 2012 TE310 with 2 oil changes. If you race all the time you need oil changes more often. I just trail ride (not race mode) and change the oil every few hundred miles and I know this is fine. I just went offroad last weekend and covered 6o miles of offroad trails over a 7 hour day. I now will change the oil again.
Dont overthink it and just ride!!! The bikes are well built and not made of butter. If you look in the manual you will see two maintenance schedules, one for for competition race mode and one that is not. I follow a schedule somewhere in the middle since I don't race, but get on the throttle often.